Ricard has been creating virtual world experiences since the mid-2000s. He is currently Co-founder of Vienna-based Captic GmbH, a leader in the industrial metaverse and in the creation of premium cultural and immersive experiences.

Captic provides a web-native, white-label metaverse platform designed for organisations that want to build, operate and scale their own presence in spatial computing. Its technology already hosts tens of thousands of virtual worlds and combines enterprise-grade security with live, in-browser scripting , multi-player agents and GenAI asset generation.

A former Games Program Chair of SIGGRAPH on two occasions, Ricard is also a founding board member of Euromersive, the European federation of XR professionals.